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to the Chief of
Sinn~rs-
8
r
bat with the Devil.
Wherefore
~
¥:ent to
O.od
again as well as I
could,
for Mercy
flill.
,
1
8~.
_Now alfo did
the _Tempter begin.
tc)
m0ck
me
in rny
mifery,
faying,
That fteing I
had thus par-ted with
the Lord Jefos, and
provo–
ked
him
to difpleafore,
.who
tvoultJ have
flood be-..
tween
my
Soul
and the
flame of devouring Fi-re,
there
was
n01v
but
one
n,ay,
~tnrl
that
was,
to pray
that God the Father
would
be the
Mediator
betwixt ·his Son and
me,that
we might
be recon–
ciled
a(Jain,~tnd th~tt
I
mitht
have
that
ble./Jed
be–
nefit
il~
him that his
bleffid
Saints-
enjoyed.
I
81
.Then
did thatScripture feize
upon
my
Soul,
He
it
of
Qne
mind, and who can turn
hirn?
Oh! I faw
'twas as
eafie to
perfwade
him to
make
a
newWorld,
a
new
Covenant, or new -
' Bible
befides that
we
have already,as
to
pray
for
foch
a
thing. This
was to
perfwade hin1,
that what he had
done
alread.y"·as
meer
folly;
and to
rerfuade
with him to alter,
yea,
to
dif–
annul
thewhole
way
of
Salvation :
And then
.would
that
faying
rent
n1y
Soul
afunder,
Nei–
ther is there
Sal~ation
in any other
;
for
there~
none other name under Heaven, given amonoff
men,
1vhereby
'W1
muff
be faved,
At!. 4·
I
2.
6
'
. I
82.
No\v
~he
moft
free, and full, and
gra–
Clous\V
ords
tn
t~e
Gofpel
were
rhe
greateft
torment,
to
n1e :
y~a
notl1ing
fo
afflicted
me
as the
Thoughts
of
jefus
Chrifr,
the rem
em-
,brance
of
a Saviour; becanfe I had caft
him
oft~
brought forth .the
Vil1any
of
my
fin,
and
·
my
lof~
by
it) .to
m1nd
n~thing
did
twinge
my
Confcience